Do you find yourself in any of these situations:
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• Just retired
• Newly out of a divorce
• Your business is no longer working
• You feel done with a life-long career
• The last child finally left the nest
• Or any other situation that has ended and you don't know what to do

We go through stages in life. Things end. New things begin. But sometimes we're at a total loss as to what to do next.

From a psychic perspective, the ending means everything has been derived, lessons learned, from the experience and it's time to move on to other adventures and learn new things.

Most of the time, we have no idea what the new thing is and that's just how it should be. The new energies, new direction is not yet available; it has to be developed. Old energies need to wane, lessen in their strength, the focus you gave them lessen and in that way room is created for something new.

Once the old energies diminish, one naturally starts to daydream, look forward. And that's just what needs to happen.

A New Chapter in Your Life Guided Meditation
​by Sanaya Roman, Chanel for Orin

This is a great description of the artist prototype; great perspective. Also, if you're an artist, of any kind, Eric Maisel's books offer tremendous insight into the artist's process and personality. Highly recommended.

Most of us are very busy and often never get around to taking good care of ourselves -- yet everything depends on our well-being, staying healthy in every way, to have a fulfilling life.

Many of us have also grown up in difficult home situations and were not cared for in a proper way so we may not even know how to take care of ourselves. What does self-care mean? What do I do? What does taking care of myself involve?

I know I grew up reading magazines where self-care was about taking bubble baths. That's nice, however, there is a lot more.

Taking care of yourself financially is self-care. Basically, you do all you need to do to make yourself safe, secure, happy.

Robyn L. Gobin's book, The Self-Care Prescription, talks about ways of taking care of yourself beyond the bubble bath.

Theodosia Corinth's book, The Witch's Complete Guide to Self-Care, goes into the deep reasons for self-care. An amazing book for deep insights that make sense of the whole self-care notion.

I came across this beautiful book with lots of illustrations "accidentally." I think my higher self made me pull it off the shelf since I don't really have resonance with the concept of witch. And it's true. The book holds universal principles. I think the title was a gimmick to, perhaps, attract a certain audience that might otherwise learn about the importance of self-care.

In any case, it's one of the deepest books I have ever read -- though you have to read it very carefully to get those deeper meanings.

There are lots of books about self-care these days. If these two don't quite resonate with you, go to the bookstore, browse and see if you can find something that feels right to you.